Nev are the leaves always that shiny? I like the plant.

It really helps to have a flower to look at, Nev! While I don't recognize it offhand, the flower positively screams "amoena", so that gives me a good place to start looking on FCBS. Check out the photo of 'Selby-Seidel', a cv. of amoena v. amoena. Pretty similar, although it's hard to tell about the true foliage color. Also look at 'Hellfire', which is a hybrid of S-S and Beryl Allen, another form of amoena. I'd say it's likely one or the other of those.

Hi HDD and Lisa,
Thanks a lot for the feedback.

HDD, the plant belongs to a friend of many years who is very, very ill and has been in and out of hospital since early last year and she asked me to see if I could find anyone to ID her plant.

The leaves must be naturally shiny as I only washed the leaves in water to remove some dust and waited till they dried before I took the pic.

I also forgot to mention that it is only quite small, about 12 inches overall the whole plant and about 8 inches high from the bottom of the pot to the top of the leaves.

It is growing beneath 50% green shade cloth which gets the sun from 0900 - 1500 and doesn't get any other shade.

Lisa, that's the only pic I have and it was taken with my old camera which I could never use to good effect. I have tried to make the flower a bit bigger so you can see it better and maybe help in the ID.

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All the best, Nev.